Acknowledgements
A thousand thanks to all who have assisted in the preservation, gathering, and compiling of stories of the people, places, and times that have become history. The following people have been especially helpful providing information used in this article and I am extremely grateful to: the late Snyder Roberts, whose efforts paved the way for many to follow; Mrs. Dorathy Moneymaker; Mr. Eugene Pickel; Mr. Robert Bailey and the Roane County Heritage Commission; Mr. Rufus Smith; and the Gallaher family.
We, the committee, are grateful, as well as encouraged and uplifted, by the cooperative and helpful spirit of the descendants of both slaves and slave owners.
Selected Resources
* C.F. Welcker Papers. McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN
* Roane County Heritage Commission. Roots of Roane County. The Research Room. www.roanetnheritage.com
* Moneymaker, Dorathy S. We’ll Call It Wheat, 1979.
* Pickel, Eugene Monroe. A History of Roane County Tennessee to 1860, Roane County Heritage Commission, 1981.
* Hall, Jere and Shelley, Jack B. Valley of Challenge and Change: Roane County Tennessee 1860 - 1900. East Tennessee Historical Society, Roane County Heritage Commission, 1996.
* Johnson & Jackson. City Behind a Fence Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1942-1946, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1981.
* Todd, History of the 79th New York Highlanders, . (out of print)
* Franklin, John Hope, Runaway Slaves, Oxford University Press, N.Y. 1999.
* Fry, Gladys-Marie. Night Riders, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1975.
* Roane County Court Records
* U.S. Census, Roane County, Tennessee 1850, 1860
* Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family. Ballantine Publishing, 1998,1999.
* Connelly, Thomas L., The Civil War in Tennessee, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1979
* Crow, Vernon, Storm in the Mountains. Press of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 1982.
* Dunn, Durwood. An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1997.
* Confederate War Records on microfilm at the McClung Historical Collection Library, Knoxville, TN.
* Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, 1856 - 1864.
* Blasingame, The Slave Community. Oxford University Press, 1972,1979.
* Whiteaker & Dickinson, Tennessee in American History. Gian Press, Ma., 1989.
* Hoskins, Katherine B., Anderson County Historical Sketches. Memphis State University Press, 1979.
* Howell, Donna Wyant, I Was a Slave: True Life Stories Told by Famous American Slaves in the 1930s. American Legacy Books, Washington, D.C., 1997.
* Lamon, Lester C., Blacks in Tennessee, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1981.
* Loguen, J.W., The Rev. J.W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman. Syracuse, N.Y., J.G.K. Truair and Co. Stereotypers and Printers Office of the Daily Journal, 1859.
* Civil War Diary of A.J. Burum for 1864, unpublished. Available at the Old Roane County Courthouse, Roane County Heritage Commission